da Enrico Melozzi | 24/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos, Opinioni
Arcangelo Corelli in the portrait by Hugh Howard. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 1714 an Amsterdam publisher brings out, posthumously, the twelve Concerti grossi of Arcangelo Corelli’s Opus 6. Eight years later, in 1722, Rameau’s Treatise on Harmony appears... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 20/09/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos, Opinioni
by the Melos Chorus, technical-scientific committeeFinal applause at an opera performance, Savonlinna festival. Via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA).There is a moment of social terror every new listener knows: the music stops, the hands itch, and half the hall shoots a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos, Opinioni
Fortepiano by Conrad Graf, Metropolitan Museum. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).How many notes are there in an octave? Anyone who has seen a keyboard answers twelve, and the answer has been right for about two and a half centuries. Before that, it was an open... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 13/09/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos, Opinioni
by the Melos Chorus, technical-scientific committeeAudience in the hall during a concert, Sydney Opera House. Via Wikimedia Commons.The sentence that kills more tickets than any price is always the same, and anyone who works in music hears it at every dinner party: I... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 09/09/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos, Opinioni
A page from the Graduale Aboense, 14th century. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).There is one date, just one, that the history of music can state with notarial certainty: Christmas Day 1198, in the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, when a second voice joined the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/09/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos, Opinioni
from the Melos Chorus, technical and scientific committeeArturo Toscanini in Milan, 1953. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).This magazine admires Arturo Toscanini without reservation, and that is exactly why it can afford the sentence that follows: with him,...
